Virtual Drummer BRUTE
Smells like mean drumming
For rock, grunge, punk, and cross-over styles
From nineties to noughties
Contemporary hard-and-heavy music genres driven by a very specific drumming style: loud, wild, edgy and cutting through the mix. Both drum sounds and playing are rooted in aesthetics invented about two decades ago. Virtual Drummer BRUTE features the essential sounds and styles from Grunge to NuMetal.
In a nutshell: BRUTE is the Virtual Drummer for you, if HEAVY 2 is too Metal-ish and SOLID 2 not rocking hard enough.
What’s in it for me?
From Seattle with
In the early 1990s, a guitar-heavy new musical category set out to conquer the hearts and ears of the audience. A new generation of artists would unleash distorted guitars, angry drums, and bucketloads of attitude onto an audience that was suddenly keen to rock out again. Influenced by classic rock of the 1960s and ‘70s, and in opposition to the synthetic aesthetics of the prior decade, bands like Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains popularized the next incarnation of Rock music. Its playbook is still today the go-to for guitar-heavy hard rocking styles.
FOOTNOTES:
If you’d like to dive deeper into the history of this sound, we recommend Dave Grohl’s (Foo Fighters) documentary Sound City about the iconic studio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoOfiLz1G4
Hear the songs that inspired us to make BRUTE, check out this playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NsW6BpaGKIc2XfUO0Eb9S
Punchy, crisp character
What makes BRUTE special? First and foremost it has been designed, recorded and processed to do one thing really well: Compete with layered walls of distorted guitars while maintaining character and detail. This was a tricky challenge... The solution was to record with three different sets of microphones that emphasize different aspects of the drum sound.
Each of the three microphone sets has a specific sonic purpose:
1. Click/Smack
2. Grit/Dirt
captured. All the organic noise and resonances that give a warm, coarse and
natural quality.
3. Clean/Nice
Using the Smack and Grit controls, you can adjust and blend these different characteristics seamlessly to find the perfect mix:
sounds.
Kit Rock
The five drum kits in BRUTE have been composed with specific styles in mind.
1. DARK
2. DIRTY
3. TIGHT
snare. 4. NOBLE
Drumming in the name of
Programming realistic drum tracks can be daunting. With BRUTE it’s fast and easy, so you can focus on your music!
NOFX? Well, there are at least a few...
Mix Presets shape the overall sound by swapping out an entire multi-bus effect chain for every channel under the hood. Saves you time and nerves wrestling with the bus system of your DAW.
Mix Presets:
1. Gentle: Polishing and pleasant, use this for ballads or power pop.
2. Slam: For that garage sound, too much compression. Pumping & cranked.
3. Bite: Less bass, more lower mids, aggressive. Super fast punk anthem anyone?
4. Crush: Distortion and saturation, think tape machine and valve distortion. Fast FOO’d,
if you know what I mean.
5. Bounce: More warmth, modern, Hip-hop-inspired, Rick Rubin might enjoy this one, if
he’d ever touch a plug-in. Sound-designed by Richie Beretta in NYC.
6. Wide: Stadium-Rock, big and expensive, more subtleties, less punch.
Features at a Glance
BRUTE features 5 Drum Kits, 6 mix presets, 31 Styles with 23 ready-made phrases each, for a total of 713 phrases.
Smack
Make your drums stand out! Smack adds purpose-recorded and processed mic signals that focus attacks and transients while retaining the warm, organic qualities of the kit.
Grit
Crossfades between two sets of mics: basically from nice and clean to dirty and mean.
Made for you and your stupid mom!
Fight for your right to keep rocking!
System Requirements
Operating Systems
● Windows 7 or later
● macOS X 10.11 or later
● 64bit only
● You may have success on earlier versions but ujam doesn’t support and fully qualify
them.
Minimum Requirements
● 4GBofRAM
● 3.1 GB of free Disk Space
● 1280x768px Display
● Internet Connection
Plug-in Formats
● VST, AU 2 and AAX
● AU 2 version only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.
● If you want to move your .blob file to an external drive, we recommend the use of a
SSD to prevent dropouts.
Supported Standards
● MIDI
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License Agreement
The Following End User License Agreement is included with Brute. This License is only valid for the individual who has purchased an unopened, new and lawfully made copy of Brute from a dealer or distributor authorized by Big Fish Audio.
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